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Video Game Bored / Re: Nintendo Anounces Switch 2
« Last post by Olivia Wilde Homo on July 27, 2025, 06:27:05 PM »Finally got a Switch 2 and it’s alright. Mario Kart World’s changes will take some getting used to. Donkey Kong Bananza is a pretty fun game although I find DK’s redesign to be obnoxious. I barely have time to play so the anemic Switch 2 lineup suits me fine.
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The Superdeep Borehole / rip hulkamania
« Last post by team filler on July 25, 2025, 02:09:15 AM »Yeah, brother 
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The Superdeep Borehole / Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
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The Superdeep Borehole / Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
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The Superdeep Borehole / Re: Pray for Ben Garrison
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The Superdeep Borehole / Re: The Japan Thread
« Last post by Polident Hive on July 12, 2025, 01:49:15 AM »That touches on how many restaurants and cafes are run by one guy and their families. There have been a number I know of where the owner closed up or passed. Maybe it’s the financial situation, tourism, or the family wants out. Always pretty sad.
One small cafe I went to initially had an old married couple running it. After some months, the older lady wasn’t there anymore. Couple weeks after, the place closed down. Looked it up and learned the wife passed. The husband didn’t want to continue alone.
Anyway, I don’t use TikTok but in general, I avoid places with a ton of google maps reviews.
One small cafe I went to initially had an old married couple running it. After some months, the older lady wasn’t there anymore. Couple weeks after, the place closed down. Looked it up and learned the wife passed. The husband didn’t want to continue alone.
Anyway, I don’t use TikTok but in general, I avoid places with a ton of google maps reviews.
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The Superdeep Borehole / Re: The Japan Thread
« Last post by Coax on July 11, 2025, 09:46:18 AM »Overtourism in Japan, and How it Hurts Small Businesses.
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Japan now gets more visitors in a month than it got in a year twenty years ago.
I’ve come to see overtourism as a kind of natural disaster. How can you get angry at the earth for having an earthquake? The mechanisms of capitalism and the American-born ethos of infinite-growth social media (which TikTok simply aped / built atop) have come together to form this demented stew — this blight on cities like Kyoto, Venice, and more — by operating at a scale and level of abstraction beyond human comprehension.
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Paradoxically, despite the numbers of inbound tourists, there’s never been a better time to explore the B-side of Japan. Cities like Yamaguchi and Toyama are eager for visitors and don’t suffer from overtourism. They require a little more work than Kyoto, but the benefits are profound. [...] They are walkable and become archetypical for what’s possible outside the mega centers of Japan. They inspire me, and I bet they’d inspire you, too. If you do happen to find a great place, a perfect little hole in the wall, just please do us all a favor: don’t post about it on TikTok.